Faculty Perceptions of Research Assessment at Virginia Tech

This data set represents the data analyzed and discussed in a research article for the Journal of Altmetrics (JOA) of the same title/name. However, the original survey project was commissioned by Virginia Tech Faculty Senate to assess faculty perceptions of research assessment and salary considerations at Virginia Tech. The project was overseen by the Faculty Senate Research Assessment Committee and the resulting report was submitted to Faculty Senate and presented to the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors at their June 2019 meeting. That report can be found at https://bov.vt.edu/assets/Attachment II_Constituent Reports_June 2019.pdf, pages 12-118 (includes survey questions). The data that are available in this data set represent data that were analyzed and included in the JOA research article. Certain data, including responses to questions about salaries, are not included in this data set, because they were not a part of the analysis for the JOA publication. This data set includes four files: the survey instrument (all questions, PDF format), select quantitative responses (.csv), select qualitative responses (.csv), and the codebook for the questions in the response files (.csv). All response data have been anonymized; please see each file for more details. Racial data and departmental data are eliminated to ensure anonymity. The survey was submitted to the Institutional Review Board of Virginia Tech and was determined to not be research involving human subjects as defined by HHS and FDA regulations, resulting in approval to broadly distribute the survey to Virginia Tech faculty with expectations that responses are kept anonymous and results do not claim to be generalizable knowledge (IRB reference number 19-234). The authors would like to thank  Dr. Ivica Ico Bukvic, who provided us with a survey instrument used  within the School of Performing Arts (SOPA) at Virginia Tech to  determine the types of research and creative works SOPA faculty produce  and which indicators they prefer for scholarly evaluation; this project's survey instrument was based in-part on the SOPA survey instrument.

本数据集收录了发表于《Altmetrics》期刊（Journal of Altmetrics, JOA）同名研究文章中所分析及讨论的数据。然而，该原始调查项目由弗吉尼亚科技大学（Virginia Tech）教工评议会委托，旨在评估该校教师对研究评估及薪酬考量之看法。该项目在教工评议会研究评估委员会的监督下进行，并形成的报告已提交至教工评议会，并于2019年6月的教工评议会访问者委员会会议上展示。该报告可查阅于https://bov.vt.edu/assets/Attachment%20II_Constituent%20Reports_June%201219.pdf的第12至118页（包含调查问题）。本数据集中所提供的数据为该JOA研究文章所分析并包含的数据。由于这些数据并非JOA出版物分析的一部分，因此某些数据，包括关于薪酬问题的回答，未被包含在本数据集中。本数据集包含四个文件：调查问卷（所有问题，PDF格式）、精选定量回答（.csv格式）、精选定性回答（.csv格式）以及响应文件中问题的代码簿（.csv格式）。所有响应数据均已匿名处理；请参阅每个文件以获取更多详细信息。为保障匿名性，种族数据和部门数据已被剔除。调查已提交至弗吉尼亚科技大学的机构审查委员会（Institutional Review Board, IRB），并经判定不涉及人类受试者的研究，符合美国卫生与公众服务部（HHS）及食品药品监督管理局（FDA）的规定，因此获得批准广泛分发至弗吉尼亚科技大学教师，并预期保持匿名性，且结果不宣称具有普遍适用性（IRB参考编号19-234）。作者们对提供弗吉尼亚科技大学表演艺术学院（School of Performing Arts, SOPA）内部使用的调查问卷的Ivica Ico Bukvic博士表示感谢，该问卷旨在确定SOPA教师所产出的研究类型及创造性作品，以及他们偏好的学术评估指标；本项目的调查问卷部分基于SOPA的问卷设计。